Osborne vs Balls: inside the conference speeches
The chancellor and the shadow chancellor have now made their conference speeches. What do they tell us about their different views of the current economic crisis?
George Osborne’s speech had a strong focus on people working, which coincided with his plans to cut £10bn from the welfare budget. This can be seen with his repeated references to “enterprise”, “working” and “jobs”.
Like his Labour counter-part, Mr Osborne used the words “people”, “government” and “country” repeatedly, but was much more regular in his use of the word “British”.
Both men had to face the issue of taxes, with Osborne saying today that the rich were paying more the UK’s tax revenue every year under the Conservatives than they had under the Labour government.
The issue was more of a focus for Mr Osborne it seemed, as he used the word “tax” 24 times compared to Mr Balls’ 15.
Mr Balls, it seems, sees the trouble with the economy as an issue that will last, his commonly used words “long” and “term” being evidence of this.
Click on the images above to be taken to the Snowcloud, where you can scroll over words to see how often they were used, or click on them to find their places within the speech.
